How would i activate a button of a screen gui that's in the workspace, not playergui?

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#1

Greetings,

I’m making money printers, that a player places on the ground and the accumulate currency then by clicking on a button they are suppose to be able to withdraw the amount.

First I put the gui inside StarterGui, but then i realized that when the player respawns he can’t see the gui. So now I’ve decided to put the gui inside the printer itself, however, because it’s now on the server i can’t activate the button which was activated via a local script before.

I can only activate it with a Script and MouseButton1Click but this prevents me from knowing who clicked the button.

So now I am trying to figure out how i would activate the button and detect who clicked it, to check if the player who clicked it is the owner of the printer.

Please advise, thank you for your time

#2

I am 100% sure that the reason it isn’t functioning in a LocalScript for you is because it’s not in either StarterPlayerScripts or PlayerGui
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(Code that I tested this with)

workspace.Part.SurfaceGui.TextButton.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	print("ran")
end)

The way I would go about this is do the MouseButton1Click via client then use a RemoteEvent and let the server withdraw money for the player, good luck :smiley:

#3

I know that, the thing is how would i reference what button i mean when the printer is in replicated storage and i clone it into the game every time a printer is placed down

#4

If you’re still willing to put the GUI into StarterGui, have you tried turning the ResetOnSpawn property of your ScreenGui to false?

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By default it is turned on, which makes the GUI reset to its original state whenever the player respawns.

If you are intent on doing it server-sided, have you considered setting a part with a ClickDetector over the button? The MouseClick event will pass along the player who clicked the part.

#5

I’d use .ChildAdded from the localscript, or you can use CollectionService from the server (since they replicate)

#6

Thank you so much, that simple solution is just what i needed